03/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - EU joins Mission Innovation initiative. The European Union has become the 21st member of the Mission Innovation initiative, which was launched as part of the COP 21 climate conference. The initiative seeks to increase public and private funding for research and development in energy transition, to reach an overall annual sum of €26.5 billion by 2021. The announcement was made by the European Commission as part of the first ministerial meeting on this...